Ishikawa: “You get too lost into your thoughts, Erika. You have to be more open. And this is a radio show, so please speak more clearly.”Miyoshi: “Understood! I’ll do my best!”Ishikawa: “Your voice is too loud.”Miyoshi: “… Sorry.”

Satoda: “Hey, even I have lots of fans that tell me I’m cute.”Miuna: “What? I don’t think so…”Satoda: “But I do! For example, there’s (mumbles)… and many others, too!”Miuna: “There’s probably just like one fan who actually thinks that.”Satoda: “Not true! There’s lots of them!”Miuna: “But you’ve told me before that you’ve gotten fan letters that just said they were going to stop being your fans.”

6: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:29:08.80 0Both are awful. (laughs)

4: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:28:30.46 0Can you even call it a fan letter if it just says that they’re going to stop being your fan?

11: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:31:30.42 0
The feeling of tension on v-u-den’s radio show is intense.

82: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:55:53.86 0
Rika-chan giving the members preachings on live radio.

85: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:56:26.68 0
I can only wonder what v-u-den are like backstage and stuff…

88: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 18:58:13.93 0>>85They shared a dressing room for the musical, but Miyoshi was apparently so uncomfortable she spent all her time there doing crossword puzzles with the staff.

96: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/09/11(月) 19:00:13.34 0
And Rika-chan just spent that time playing her DS.

Rika-chan: “From now on, you’re banned from calling me Ishikawa-san! Got it? You’re going to be punished if you call me that again!“Okada: “Please, Ishikawa-san, I’m– ah…!“Rika-chan: “Yui! What did you just call me~?“Okada: “I’m sorry, Rika-chan. The “Ishikawa-san” just came out…“Rika-chan: “No excuses! You will properly call me Rika-chan from now on!“

A slight change from their usual strained radio show, Rika-chan’s oppressive pressure radio airs again tonight at 9 PM!

Rika-chan: “Whaaat?! I had no idea you bought a dog, Erika!!”Miyoshi: “Huh? I didn’t tell you?”Rika-chan: “This is the first time I’m hearing about it! Erika, hand on your heart: are you absolutely sure you’ve told me this before?”Miyoshi: “… It’s possible you’re the only one I didn’t tell about it.“

37: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/10(金) 17:13:11.77 0They both switched to calling her “Rika-chan,” but the fact that they’re still being careful and using extremely honorific language makes it even more uncomfortable.

65: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/10(金) 17:27:10.93 0
They’ve never had a unit where the relationships between members were quite this strained. It’s quite refreshing actually.

40: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/10(金) 17:14:23.17 0
Wait, didn’t their radio show end already? I really liked listening to that awkwardness…

44: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/10(金) 17:15:22.61 0>>40The strained awkwardness radio ended in September. Their new, mental pressure radio started in October.

9: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:27:09.64 0
I want to go all “there, there” and comfort Miuna when she’s feeling down after being called a baldie.

20: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:35:18.13 0

Miuna: “And so I was like “Oh no, this is bad! I gotta go help them!”… and so I did.“Satoda: “Ah, you did?“Miuna: “Yes. But once I went over–“Satoda: “They were balding?“Miuna: “… There was no one there.“Satoda: “Oh, my mistake, my mistake.“Miuna: “Please don’t make mistakes like that…“Satoda: “Sorry, my bad. (laughs)“

23: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:37:12.45 0
Satoda sure is a bully.

28: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:39:17.74 0
Fighting is a tool of communication for Country Musume.

27: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:39:12.25 0
Miuna was saying the other day about how she no longer has a complex about the bald thing, so Satoda figured she had to take the bullying a stage further.

33: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/11/22(水) 18:43:57.21 0As expected of the girls who drove Rinne out of the group with constant mental torment.

Miuna’s problematic statements

1: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 19:54:15.03 0
This is probably the worst one as of late:

Miuna: “But you were a bully in your student days, Mai-chan.”Satoda: “No I wasn’t!”Miuna: “But you were just telling me yourself the other day that you were!“

Miuna: “Mai-chan, you have some food scraps stuck between your teeth.”Satoda: “Don’t say that when we’re before an audience!”Miuna: “Mai-chan often has leftovers stuck in her teeth so I always have to check them.“

174: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 21:28:20.20 0“Everyone calls me weird, but I don’t understand! Just which part of me is weird?!?” The idol that asks that from a taxi driver, while crying.

74: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 20:21:54.33 0

Q. Who do you think is the biggest airhead in H!P?

Murata: “I’d say Miuna-san from Country Musume.”Shibata: “She’s just an enormous airhead. She makes Muracchi look like a normal person.”Murata: “Every single thing she says is as airheaded as anything can be.”Saito: “Yeah. I think she surpasses Mura-chan. That girl is the ultimate airhead.”Ootani: “She’s in a different class altogether. I’ve never met anyone like Miuna. She’s not like Muracchi, either… I mean, she’s an airhead of course, but she’s the first airhead I’ve seen of that type.“

79: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 20:23:29.02 0
I felt frightened when I heard the English words “financial planner” come out of Miuna’s mouth.

83: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 20:24:20.35 0
But she also has the brains to have passed level 2 in the Japan Kanji Aptitude Test.

Miuna: “Whenever I’m worrying about something, I send a mail about it to other members. In poem form.“Interviewer: “…In poem form?!“Miuna: “Yoshizawa-san was the only one who answered me back with a poem of her own.“

Satoda: “You’re really close with this person, right?”Kago: “I’ve had a sleepover at her house before.”Tsuji: “I’ve both had a sleepover at her house, and she’s come over for one at my house, too.”Miuna: “Yes, but me, too!! I’ve had a sleepover at her place, too!!!”Satoda: “… I don’t think anyone was saying you hadn’t, Miuna.“

519: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/26(水) 21:27:18.90 0

After coming back for an encore:

Miuna: “I would now like to announce my post-concert objective to you all!”Ayaya: “W-what is it this time?!”Miuna: “After this, I will do a very thorough fashion check of what Matsuura-san is wearing when she leaves for home!”Ayaya: “(bursts out laughing) Sure thing. I’ll even let you watch me change into those clothes.“

348: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/04/25(火) 22:16:49.28 0

Miuna carries a notebook with her in which she apparently writes stuff like poetry and wise things her friends have said. When Yasuda asked Miuna about the wise sayings, she started explaining it to her really excitedly: when she’s having just everyday, ordinary conversations with friends and they say something good, she’ll write it down in her notebook, look at it afterwards and think to herself “what a great person this is!” Yasuda and everyone at the venue went “…you just THINK it!?“

Yasuda was laughing so hard at Miuna she couldn’t take it anymore. “You remind me of Nacchi somehow. Nacchi, too, will sometimes say incomprehensible stuff like that. (laughs)” It was too late to stop Miuna now. Hearing that, she went “Really? I remind you of Abe-san?! Does Abe-sanwrite stuff in a notebook, too?“

The venue completely exploded with laughter at Miuna having stepped on that land mine — and not even realizing it.

35: 名無し募集中。。。 2006/01/21(土) 18:36:55.00 OI’m happy to see the number of masochists around here increasing.

Henkka: Speaking of radio shows…

If there’s one piece of advice I’ll give to H!P fans who are thinking about learning Japanese, it’s this. Grab a bunch of radio shows featuring H!P members, put them on your phone or music player, and listen to them all the time. Literally. Listen to them both when you can and when you can’t give them your full attention, listen to them when you’re bored, when you’re commuting to work or school, when you’re at work (if you can), when you’re driving, walking or biking, when you’re cooking, when you’re about to fall asleep, and especially listen to them when you’re sitting on the toilet.

“But Henkka, how will I learn anything by just listening to them speak? I don’t understand any of it.” If you were thinking of typing a comment right now to ask me that, then that is time wasted because you should’ve been spending it by thinking about which radio shows you’re going to listen to.

17 comments on “Who had the more entertaining fights on radio: v-u-den or Country Musume?”

Based on this selection of quotes, Country Musume and v-u-den seem like opposite situations. One comfortable enough with each other to take teasing to extremes, the other uncomfortable enough to make disagreeing awkward.

About the link to radio shows, I will say this: my knowledge of Japanese being very minimal, I still enjoyed listening to Blend Kiss with Ayaka and Satoda Mai. They sound like they’re having fun.

Rika’s just good at bitching. Dealing with that’s easy enough…to punish her, I’ll just gag her mouth with my fully-erect hard cock sliding in and out of it after I’ve tied both her hands behind her back and then force her to choke on my semen. Then, I’ll make sure she truly pays for her insolence by removing my cock and slamming and pounding it hard in her vagina until I couldn’t hold my sperm any longer. I will cum inside her over and over again until repeatedly fucking her anc coming until my semen overflows and starts to ooze out of her pussy and she begs me to stop, promising to repent tearfully in between sobs.

> “But Henkka, how will I learn anything by just listening to them speak? I don’t understand any of it.” If you were thinking of typing a comment right now to ask me that, then that is time wasted because you should’ve been spending it by thinking about which radio shows you’re going to listen to.

Having listened to way too much Japanese before even taking my first course was probably the one thing that helped me the most with language acquisition. Few things beat having an intuitive feeling for what sounds right or wrong when wrangling grammar or trying to remember which way to conjugate a verb.

Funny, the first Japanese words I’ve learnt are “kimochi”, “iku..iku!!”, “Oppai sugoi”..thanks to their legendary AVs, they’ve given me a good introduction to the Japanese world, and Jap language by extension.